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Celebrating Place. Celebrating Place. How trails embrace our How trails embrace our environment, celebrate environment, celebrate history, and connect to history, and connect to
our community.our community.
Jeffrey R. Kerr, ASLAFloyd Browne Group
Signature ParkBeachwood, Ohio
Trails can be more than lineal corridors with beginnings and ends.
But trail systems can be more than that.
Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail Peninsula Train Station
What makes a trail a destination?
Cascade LocksAkron, Ohio
They can link us They can link us to our history.to our history.
Historical Portage Path
They can let They can let us explore us explore
our heritage.our heritage.Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
They can link us to our history.
or to our built or to our built environment.environment.
Canal ReservationCleveland Metroparks
or just remind us of our past.
Maple Highlands TrailGeauga County
They can connect us They can connect us to our neighborhoods.to our neighborhoods.
Freedom Secondary TrailTallmadge, Ohio
West Creek ReservationCleveland Metroparks
They can reveal special places that are sometimes hidden.
They can allow us to preserve our transportation heritage
Niles Bikeway
They can let you They can let you see things from see things from
a different a different perspective.perspective.
Honda Wetland
or sometimes just to or sometimes just to get a little closer.get a little closer.
Sippo Lake Education Center and TrailSippo Lake Education Center and TrailStark CountyStark County
They can teach us about They can teach us about the complexity of our the complexity of our
environment.environment.
Or the simple Or the simple enjoyment of it…enjoyment of it…
North Fork TrailNorth Fork TrailBath TownshipBath Township
They can promote alternative transportation.
Cascade LocksAkron, Ohio
or just provide or just provide places to get out places to get out
and exercise.and exercise.
Sand Run TrailMetro Parks, Serving Summit County
They don’t always need be on land.
Cuyahoga RiverCleveland, Ohio
They can help reclaim abandoned places.
Former B.F. Goodrich Manufacturing ComplexAkron, Ohio
They can introduce us to important natural resources.
Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath TrailCuyahoga Valley National Park
So let’s think how trails can make connections So let’s think how trails can make connections with our environment, history, and culture.with our environment, history, and culture.
Treadway CreekCleveland
Celebrating Place. How trails embrace our environment,
celebrate history, and connect to our community.